Saturday was a new low for LSU coach Brian Kelly’s tenure in Baton Rouge.

The Tigers lost 49-25 to Texas A&M in Tiger Stadium. It was the program’s first loss at home to the Aggies since 1994 and its most lopsided defeat to Texas A&M since 1991.

The loss dropped LSU to 5-3 on the season and 2-3 in Southeastern Conference play, essentially eliminating the Tigers from College Football Playoff contention. The defeat also raised more questions regarding Kelly’s job security, given that Saturday’s loss likely marks the fourth consecutive year in which LSU will miss the playoff.

“That’s out of my hands,” Kelly said. “It’s impossible for the head coach that’s been here for four years and 35 years of doing this to think anything else, but this is my responsibility, and we’ve got to get it turned around.”

If LSU decided to move on from Kelly, it would have to pay roughly $54 million to buy out his contract.

“And that’s not my decision in terms of whether I’m here or not,” Kelly said, “but that’s what I will do as a head coach that’s been doing it for over three decades.”

LSU will have a week off before it heads to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, for its next game against Alabama on Nov. 8. The Crimson Tide struggled to take down South Carolina on the road on Saturday, but it’s still 5-0 in SEC play.

Whether the Tigers will have the same coaching staff when they next play may be up for debate.

“I mean, you’re going to evaluate everything,” Kelly said. “I mean, I think you have to look at everything, everything that we do offensively, everything that is being done defensively, special teams was atrocious. All those things fall on me.”

With LSU’s hopes of making the playoff almost certainly in the rearview mirror, its road to even capturing eight wins may be faint. The Tigers won at least eight contests in each of Kelly’s first three seasons, but with trips to Alabama and Oklahoma still on the schedule, avoiding a 7-5 record or worse may be difficult.

But that doesn’t mean Kelly has given up finding solutions for his struggling team.

“From a football standpoint, the head football coach has to be agile enough and able to make those changes,” Kelly said, “and find out what we need to do to get our football team to play better.”